Big Score Lit
Big Score Lit pays for submitted pieces with actual currency. This is money. I repeat – not being paid in whatever clout you can suck out of the internet to add to your litany of publications you have appeared in, but realistic, money that can be exchanged for goods and services. This is massive. Usually, a literary magazine pays writers in exposure, making most writers the equivalent of unpaid interns, toiling away, making coffee, going on coffee runs, editing the work of people paid for a living, and so forth. I had to re-read this a few times. The idea of currency, in American dollars, not some stupid crypto rug pull nonsense, proper payment.
I must admit it took me by surprise. Don’t they know about AI, and how AI can write endless slop free of charge, excluding environmental damage, aquifers, etc.? I suppose not, and, to be frank, if nobody is willing to write something, why should anyone read automatically generated responses? We do not need to be that afraid of each other, where we give up any attempt to communicate and become those monastic hermits living in a three-bedroom apartment with several other roommates, rarely interacting with the outside world beyond the bare minimum. Perhaps connection and community are underrated aspects, and we should strive to recreate them. It worked out well the last time we did it, in the previous century.
This desire to compensate people for the work they produce feels antiquated, almost like a job, which is a nice way of viewing writers. I find it abhorrent that writers must suffer through countless indignities to try even to get clout. Then, when they receive that recognition, they must be thankful, radiate it high into the heavens, and proclaim how fortunate they were to be featured in said online publication, without payment. We have become so warped in a literary sense that people are even proud of not getting paid, though they never say it. That’s the quiet part, like jazz; you must listen to the notes not played. In this case, it’s the words not typed out.
With a fine, fantastic little staff behind them, I appreciate what Big Score Lit is trying to do. I can’t believe this is considered revolutionary, especially since many on the editorial staff are not from NYC. NYC is a literal legend for sucking work out of people without proper compensation, especially in the arts.
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